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Outlook: The Big Red rode the coattails of its stud running back Chad Levitt (1,428 yards, 13 touch-downs) to a stellar Ancient Eight record last season. Cornell scored more than 20 points in eight games last year and more than 27 points five times. However, the Big Red has lost half of its starters, including quarterback Steve Joyce, and the team appears vulnerable defensively...
...G.O.P. noticed back. Four years later, Nixon rode to victory over Hubert Humphrey partly on the strength of a Southern strategy devised to move the Dixiecrats permanently into the Republican camp. While remaining formally committed to racial equality, Nixon made clear he would go slow on the federal enforcement of voting rights and integration. For his '68 campaign he also recruited prominent Southerners from the Goldwater circle, including South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, an early defector from the Democrats. Meanwhile, under the pressure from the long hot summers of racial riots, the antiwar and black-power movements and the gleefully...
...first game, Schafer rode poor Dartmouth fielding and Harvard's characteristically scrappy offense to an 8-3 victory. The next game saw a 3-1 gem by Duffell, and all of a sudden, Harvard had an 11-game winning streak and was the Red Rolfe division champion...
Goetz lived only one stop away from me, and for the past 10 years I rode uptown knowing that theoretically I could, without realizing whom I was talking to, ask a fellow passenger for the correct time and get three in the back for my trouble...
STEVE CAUTHEN, 36; VERONA, KENTUCKY; former professional jockey In 1978, at 18, Cauthen rode Affirmed to become the youngest--and last--jockey to win the Triple Crown. As Grindstone won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, however, Cauthen was on the sidelines. One of the sport's most acclaimed prodigies, he retired from racing in 1992 and today is Associate Vice President at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky, where his father once worked as a blacksmith and his mother a trainer. Cauthen and his family live on a 300-acre farm where he breeds horses...